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Another provider here http://www.udemy.com/ - listened to a Lecture re Eliot & Modernism, but thought it a bit quirky, and by no means the whole story - but it was only a random look-see. On 5 December 2012 02:52, P <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > You mean you don't know about Noah and his sons? You know, the whole > shemetic gang? > > Jerome Walsh <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Shem? What a pentschanjeuchy chap he was! > > (I once got to page 2 of FW.) > > For the polyglots among you, a polyglot pun: Shem? An embarrassing name > indeed! > > Jerry > > ------------------------------ > *From:* P <[log in to unmask]> > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 4, 2012 7:28 PM > *Subject:* Re: OT: Coursera > > I'll bet Jerome has the inside story on Shem, but as to the answer, I can > 't even figure out what the question was. > P. > > Ken Armstrong <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > On 12/4/2012 6:11 PM, P wrote: > > Curious how the body figures in such clichès. Joyce would probably be able > to figure it out. > Peter (verbal contortionist & logomaniac) > > > Jerry's contorted worker put me in stitches, then at your suggestion > put me in mind of a Joycean cliche composite: Shem the Penman: > > Shem's bodily getup, it seems, included an adze of a skull, an > eight of a larkseye, the whoel of a nose, one numb arm up a > sleeve, fortytwo hairs off his uncrown, eighteen to his mock lip, > a trio of barbels from his megageg chin (sowman's son), the > wrong shoulder higher than the right, all ears, an artificial > tongue with a natural curl, not a foot to stand on, a handful of > thumbs, a blind stomach, a deaf heart, a loose liver, two fifths of > two buttocks, one gleetsteen avoirdupoider for him, a manroot > of all evil, a salmonkelt's thinskin, eelsblood in his cold toes, a > bladder tristended, so much so that young Master Shemmy on > his very first debouch at the very dawn of protohistory seeing > himself such and such, when playing with thistlewords in their > garden nursery, Griefotrofio, at Phig Streat III Shuvlin, Old > Hoeland, (would we go back there now for sounds, pillings and > sense? would we now for annas and annas? would we for full- > score eight and a liretta? for twelve blocks one bob? for four tes- > ters one groat? not for a dinar! not for jo!) dictited to of all his > little brothron and sweestureens the first riddle of the universe: > asking, when is a man not a man? > > > For the answer, if you don't have it, you can get it at > > http://instruct.uwo.ca/english/454f/fw2.html > > Gosh, thank goodness for the Internet! > > Ken A > > > > >